Actor of contest of jump of obstacles

A contest of jump of obstacles requires a complex organization with many actors with pointed competences.

Candidates

The candidates of Saut of obstacles are couples rider-horses. In the results of all the competitions, the name of the rider is always followed name of sound Cheval. It is them which will be clarified throughout the contest.

Some famous couples:

Trainers

Whatever its level, a rider likes to be made assist by a Entraîneur of confidence which will be able to remove to him the doubts at the time of the recognition of the course, to shoulder it at the time of the relaxation to the bed and to bring a constructive criticism to him on the unfolding of its course.

Some famous trainers:

  • Jean d' Orgeix: national Trainer of CSO of 1973 with 1977. It introduces in particular the use of the video to analyze and correct the defects of the riders. The team of France gains with OJ of Montreal in 1976 the gold medal by Équipe. Jean d' Orgeix is deceased in July 2006.
  • Jean Maurice Bonneau: trainer of the senior team of France since 2000. It knew to train a true team that it carried out on the first walk of the podium in 2002 to the worldwide games of Jerez of Frontera. Eric Navet conquered there the title of vice-champion of the world into individual with Dollar of the Mulberry tree. Jean Maurice Bonneau also knew to create a team of talents for OJ of Athens.
  • Xavier Delalande: trainer of the team of France veterans since 2002. In 2004, the team of France becomes champion of Europe and Anne-Catherine Martel obtains in an individual capacity with La Baule. In 2006, the team of France confirms by concervant the Européen title with Karlsruhe in Germany.
  • Marcel Rozier: trainer of the senior team of France of 1999 at 2000 (OJ of Sydney).

Organizers

The organizing are on the initiative of the contest. They carry out the program of the tests and must provide all the human means and hardware requirements to the good progress of the contest.

The persons in charge of the organization often have to play a true part of chiefs of large company. The organization of a important contest international or of a contest being held over several tracks and several days starts to prepare one year in advance.

The organization included a crowd of personnel to competences varied in order to meet all the needs.

Most of work is provided before the contest. The organizers must envisage the material infrastructure and very often seek human, voluntary competences.

At the material level, the organizers must find the financings, draw up and allot boxings where the Chevaux will place, to ensure the supply of litter and clean water, to draw up the stands of restoration, to envisage the restoration, to envisage the medical ones, to on the spot bring all the hardware requirement for the realization of the courses and to shelter the jurys, to regulate wiring for sound and to still achieve all kinds of other actions thoroughly programmed.

With level human, organizers must to seek all speakers specialists (jurys, police chiefs with the bed, chiefs of tracks, Vétérinaire, Médecin, etc) whose presence impossible to circumvent and is regulated with the contest, and to very often engage all the people, voluntary, necessary for the remainder: food, reception, management of boxings, management of the track (men of track), given of the prices, etc

During the contest, it is necessary to accommodate the competitors and the spectators, to guide and assist the specialized speakers, to nourish everyone, take care of the good progress of the tests, to organize the handing-over of the prices, to ensure cleanliness and to manage all the current tasks.

For the contest, it is necessary all to arrange… and start again for the following year!

Good planning before the contest depends good progress during. The contests, complexes to be organized, are more and more frequently implemented by specialized company doctors or semi-professionals.

Sponsors

The sponsors are partners of the organizers in financial terms, human or organisational. They can act on a contest in its globality or choose a dedicated particular test.

The jury

The members of the jury are the guarantors of the rule of the contest of jump of obstacles. It is them which manage the good progress of the tests.

Before the test, they check that the course is in conformity with the program and check the good performance of the apparatuses (stop watch for example).
During the test, they accommodate the competitors (rider and Cheval) and present them to the public, they arbitrate the course of the couple and note to them score.
At the end of the test, they classify the competitors and give the results.

After the contest, they are still the members of the jury which signs the statement of the contest and which sends the results to the centralizing authority (French federation of horsemanship in France).

Chiefs of track

The chiefs of tracks are the leaders of the contests of Saut of obstacles. True architects of the course of jump of obstacles, it is them which invent and arrange the courses. They choose a layout and draw up the obstacles according to the nature and of dimensions of the ground, the difficulty announced in the program of the test, the scale (rules of the game) of the test, engaged competition, conditions weather, etc

Once the begun test, one often surprises them to study the way in which the test proceeds that they built in order to improve with the wire of time.

Some international chiefs of track:

  • Gerard Delporte (France)
  • Javier Fernandez Alba (Mexico)
  • Luc Geffré (France), deceased on December 14th, 2004
  • Serge Houtman (France)
  • Jean François Morand (France)
  • Olaf Petersen (Germany)
  • Franck Rothenberger (Germany)

Judges of bed

The judge with the bed or police chief with the bed is ensured throughout the tests, of the good progress of the heating of the riders and the horses.

It organizes all that occurs in the surface from drive (bed) by supervising the organization. For example, in the case of a small bed, the judge with the bed is charged to decide maximum number of riders being able to involve itself at the same time.

It takes care of the respect of the Chevaux, the fair play of the riders and the good use of the obstacles of drive. In the event of ill-treatment of a horse, it is entitled to réprimander or to sanction the rider.

It takes care of the respect about passage of the riders and, in agreement with the president of the jury, of the exemptions from this one.

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